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My name is Hanna, I am 17 years old and I live in Ecuador for 4 more months. This blog is my diary about my life here in Ambato and my experiences with living and studying abroad.
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Because you will never know.

Today my Host sister and I went into the centre of Ambato to eat something and to visit my mom in a hair-salon. After we visited our mother we walked around and I asked Cielo if she wants to drink a juice with me and she said yes.

So we were walking into the direction of the "mercados", these are 3 markets halls here in Ambato. The biggest one is on one of the main streets and we were really close to this one but then I turned to another direction and Cielo was just like "Hanna where are we going? You just passed the market?" and I responded with "Mall de Frutas" (How we exchangers call the "mercado de frutas").
Cielo didn't know what I was talking about and where we were going and so I walked us to the "Mall de Frutas".

In this place works the mother of Arabellas, a girl from Estonia, dancing teacher and I wanted to buy my jugo there bc it is really good, so we bought it and after that some Ecuadorian food for lunch.
After we sat down I asked her if she really never was here before and my host sister replied with 'yes'. I was so shoked, I mean I go there a lot because I love the "Jugo naturales" and another reason is that I just enjoy being around Ecuadorian people and just to go to places not every tourist would visit. But the girl who lives here in Ambato for over 16 years never went there and this really surpised me.

It was just so surreal for me to understand that I, a girl who lives here for 6 months now, knows places a girl who lives here her entire life didn't know. Also this was a special moment for me because of this, it showed me that even when you live somewhere your whole life, that doesn't mean you will ever know it completely but that someone who just moved here maybe will discover things you never knew of.

And the same thing happens with the people in your life, the persons around you, maybe in your school, in your town, at work or whatever place. You may knowing them for years but you will never understand the whole person by itself. There always will be something you will never know. Maybe it's something you never thought this person would be capable of or this special person would like one certain thing like one specific type of music, etc.

You will never know why someone acts the way he acts. Maybe there is a really good reason why this one girls always wears a black jacket or why this one guy has a scar in his face.
You will never know why someone is the way he is, why he acts the way he acts and because you will never know for sure, you don't have the damn right to judge other people for who they are. For the way they look. For the clothes they wear. For the music they hear. For the body they have. For nothing.

So today was the day... I was out with some other exchangers for the first tme without my host-sister by my side. I know this maybe sounds not as such a big deal but for me it was. Because first my fmily was like: "No puedes salir sin Cielo es
peligroso!" What means "You can't go out without Cielo it's dangerous" and I really understand why they were saying this, i mean I don't really speak Spanish and also I just look like a Gringa (someone from the US or an other country) and everyboday is always staring at me and all the cars honk after me.

But anyway in Germany my dad was more calm about that and so here I had a little bit the feeling that I am not as "free" I want to be. I mean I didn't even wanted to go out often but still just the knowlege that I always need to go with Cielo but with that I DON'T say that I don't like to go somewhere with Cielo.